Best director of 2009 secondo DeBaser.

❝ It's a hell of a thing, killing a man: you take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

❝ “Every now and then I like to lend a hand to you negros”.

❝ Make that four.

❝ The photography is superb.

❝ The film by John Hillcoat, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, is a faithful yet monotonous rendition of the novel's atmosphere.

❝ Lawless, however, fails to genuinely convince, stuck in familiar territory and not very impactful emotionally.

❝ “In Los Angeles, a man dies on the subway. Who will notice?”

❝ “don’t get involved in anything you can’t walk out on in thirty seconds flat”

❝ “the press is free...for those who own it.”

❝ The D9 project, yet another American cash-movie about aliens, costing a whopping 30 million dollars!, produced by Peter Jackson, directed and written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, tackles political and social issues such as xenophobia and racial segregation.

❝ Blomkamp uses science fiction to talk about racism, and those who have seen in this work a simple action with robots have probably misunderstood the director's primary intent.

❝ “There’s more to life than a little money, you know. And here you are, and it’s a beautiful day. I just don’t understand it..”

❝ “Take it easy, Dude!”

❝ LOOK AT ME! I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!

❝ “Time is an abyss, profound as long as endless nights. Centuries come and go... To not have the ability to grow old is terrible... Death is not the worst; there are things much more horrible than death. Can you imagine it? Enduring through the centuries experiencing the same futile things every day...”

❝ “if I, Aguirre, want the birds to fall down dead, the birds must drop dead from the trees! I am the wrath of god. The earth I tread sees me and trembles.”

❝ “Every man for himself and God against all”: this is the terrible warning that Werner Herzog, one of the most visionary and radical living directors, chose as the original title for this film of his from 1974.

❝ Let me explain Tarantino to you. The greatest film by Tarantino. Greater than Pulp Fiction, greater than Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill.

❝ "The important things to remember are the details, the details make the story believable!"

❝ QT is a billionaire pig and pisses on the hippies.

❝ “With a script like this, any other director would have produced a mediocre and flashy film. Refn, however, was able to create a little masterpiece destined to become a cult classic of modern cinema.”

❝ “Only God Forgives is an extreme film.”

❝ “Fottesega. The Neon Demon is a work of art.”

❝ Cinema itself directly asks me Let the Right One In, and I give it my full trust, having it in my mind listening to the fragments of people's conversations, perceiving it as it accompanies reality and utopia, sometimes dreams, sometimes nightmares, all in my head.

❝ The film is very slow (perhaps even too much), but it revives a line lost for twenty years and does so with taste and quality, offering two hours far beyond mere entertainment.

❝ Warcraft may be fine only for those looking for coarse and easy entertainment; when attempting a comparison with other high-level epic-fantasy films, one immediately realizes the poor value of Duncan Jones' work.

❝ Have you seen it? No? In one word: bad!

❝ "What would you do if you knew you had less than a minute to live?"

❝ You're the entrepreneur of yourself, but the scanner for the packages will be your God, always able to tell you where, how, and when.

❝ A radical change in the way we approach existence would be necessary, but Loach does not believe in flying donkeys, and thus he gives us a devastating finale with a silence that knocks us to the ground, leaving us bleeding and breathless.

❝ We’ll miss you, Ken*, I say sincerely, because you’re a champ and you didn’t sell out as you got older.

❝ It's a brain orgasm, but the heart doesn't race.

❝ Superior to the standards is, of course, the direction with a couple of scenes (in the finale) with decidedly fascinating technical ideas.

❝ After the beautiful Skyfall, this new episode is at least partly a disappointment and a significant step back in the narrative quality.

❝ “Either you love him or you hate him”

❝ “This film devastated me.”

❝ “Requiem For A Dream”, the funeral of a dream, the American dream, never before so bitterly and violently brought to its conclusions.

❝ Cars 2 is absolutely not the case: the story of this film leaves you with absolutely nothing, the espionage thread is introduced lazily, the characters have practically no personality except for Mater, who is made the absolute protagonist.

❝ “A Prophet” is a dark, harsh film that doesn’t shy away from punches to the gut.

❝ Beautiful images, fresh, as if Audiard were rethinking the genre from scratch in a film that is genre and beyond genre.

❝ The movie is a cinematic adaptation of the novel “The Sisters Brothers” written by Canadian Patrick deWitt in 2011.

❝ Sheridan deserves credit for successfully using dramatic situations and moments of simple intimacy to ultimately shatter the "American dream" without moralizing.

❝ It's just a colossal stupidity, among the most vehement disappointments that have come my way recently along with "The Double".

❝ “This film left me a bit disappointed.”

❝ “Kidnapped” by 83-year-old Marco Bellocchio is the confirmation of a talent not yet completely dormant.

❝ Waking Ned is a little gem, for acting, natural scenery, timing, and originality.

❝ Everybody's Fine is an excellent film, that went far too unnoticed.

❝ The end is within us, we just have to explain it to ourselves, each in our own way.

❝ Haneke is mocking you: there is no salvation, no happy ending, there’s only the nightmare, even if you’re on the good side, the victory will be for the bad guys.

❝ Violence must be present, but it should never be shown.

❝ A happy surprise.

❝ For these reasons, I believe that “Waltz with Bashir” is a dense, courageous, and stimulating film. I recommend it to you.

❝ Watch this film. In the few hours afterward, it will change your attitude not only towards what you’ve seen but also towards all the massacres that pass before our eyes and which we no longer care about.

❝ Never has a war film been so well made, and never so current, given the situation now degenerated in Gaza, thanks to the Israeli forces.

❝ The film, technically flawless despite having some clunky moments in some parts of the story, relies on the excellent performance of Andra Day (awarded the Golden Globe in 2021 as best actress, just as Diana Ross had been for the same role in 1973) who is very skillful in embodying the legendary Billie.

❝ But what makes "Precious" a work of calibre is that while it tells us about this outsize girl, it offers an acute, raw, and undelicate snapshot of an uncomfortable and ignoble America.

❝ Ladies and gentlemen, here is the most awaited and awarded film of the year, a dramatic and sentimental work based on the novel of the same name by Sapphire.

❝ «A film should be like a pebble in a shoe.»
L. Von Trier

❝ "Nymphomaniac is a four-hour porno. Long live Lars Von Trier."

❝ KATABASIS!

❝ Allow me then, in a completely personal way, to define it without a shadow of a doubt as the best work of the American director's career.

❝ I am not ashamed to say I had no idea who the hell Keyser Söze was.

❝ A pinnacle in its genre, a genre often snubbed by purists, but at least in this case wrongly so.

❝ Sometimes we are caught by surprise, unexpectedly caught by surprise.

❝ “I don’t care, it’s their business. I just want a nice, clear recording”

❝ “My nightmare is to slip, crawl like a snail along the edge of a razor blade... and survive”.

❝ “I believe in America. America made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American way, giving her freedom, but I also taught her not to dishonor her family. She had a non-Italian boyfriend, they would go to the cinema together and come home late, and I didn’t protest. Two months ago, he invited her to a car ride with another friend of his. They made her drink whisky and then tried to take advantage of her. She resisted, she kept her honor. And they beat her, like an animal...”

❝ “The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part...”

❝ “Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.”

❝ “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank, you're not the car you drive, you're not the contents of your wallet, you're not your fucking khakis, you're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world!” - Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)

❝ A little gem, shining far from the sea of mediocrity of animated films (of all kinds) we have witnessed lately.

❝ "I'll always be like this, neither man nor woman, neither fish nor flesh, only Mery, Mery forever"

❝ In my opinion, a fundamental work.

❝ A very amusing comedy, yet dark as the blackest night, absolutely indefinable, perfectly defined.

❝ In short, a more or less successful horror movie. Quite a lot for a United States in a horror crisis.

❝ "The best science fiction movie ever made." Harlan Eleison

❝ Asking Terry Gilliam to be strict is like expecting a sphere to have edges.

❝ This is not a dark fairy tale: this is a film about imagining and the imaginative; and it is also a film heart-wrenching and incredibly moving, because Terry Gilliam's message is clear: imagination goes hand in hand with loneliness, more precisely, the more one is alone, the more an imagined reality becomes powerful, to the point of confusing and ascending to reality.

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An intense film, at times very raw, but above all "REAL" (and if I say it, I say it for good reason).

❝ The director, a Scot from Glasgow (which, although it’s an unwatchable hole, seems to produce only talents), is strangely interested only in interesting ideas.

❝ ("Here I died; I lost everything I was and wanted to be. And then I was reborn.")

❝ After the anonymous and bland “State Of Play,” for Macdonald another work lacking truly interesting ideas.